Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-06

a very interesting description of the interior
 of typical home in the city of Lucknow.
 riage customary in Chinai Mrs. Baldwin
 stated that while infant marriage does not
 exist, infant betrothal is very general. Mar
 riages are rare before A or 15 years of age.
 Mrs Northrop, of Middletown, read paper
 on Missionary Education" and urged the
 great desirability of enlisting the children
 and young people in the missionary work
 and stated that only one woman in ten be-
 longing to the M. B. church is a member of
 the Foreign Missionary society. A broader
 interest may be gained by the dissemination
 of missionary literature, and by the holding
 of public meetings To this end, also, the
 ssf'Il try cards" distributed among the ju-
 venile members, will be found efficient The latter portion of the afternoon was de- voted to the junior service under the charge of Mrs. McGrew, of Meriden. : Miss Gibson, formerly of India, now of Albany, N. Y., made an earnest plea for higher degree of consecration on the part of those at home as we'll as those on the foreign field. Those at home stand in the relations of stewards, holding something in trust. What is given is not so much gift as pay ment; it is simply debt. Let us inquire to-day: ''What do we owep We owe our selves, whatever else we may do in the way of work or time or money. In the course of her address Miss Gibson mar rated several pathetic incidents in the lives of the women and girls of heathendom cal culated to interest the little ones as well as the children of 8 larger growth. She also gave vivid description of the obstacles en- countered by Mrs. Grey in her efforts to teach class of thirty seven heather women of the Himalayas to sew.
 Several extracts were given relating to the
 life and work of Miss Florence Nickerson, who met so sad death and who so truly
 knew the meaning of complete self surrender to the work of missions.
 Miss Gibson was followed by Miss Clem- entina Butler, who spoke of the outlo ok in Alaska, in certain portions of which there is total absence of houses of worship of any description. Yet these people are eiti- zens of the United States. To the Presby- terians has been allotted the southeast portion of Alaska. while the M. E. church has as it's portion of the Alaskan field the Aleutian Islands, a more promising field. Yet even here the people are densely I ignorant and superstitious. These people are depending on the Methodist church to send them ministers and on the United states to send them teachers. No ministers have as yet been sent out by the Methodist Episcopal church during the eighteen years that this territory has been in the possession of our government. Who will answer the calla
 The exercises of the day were varied by ' solos, finely rendered, by Miss Arthur and o also favored the audience with two duets. Immediately after the morning and after noon exercises meals were served the dele \ gates in the lecture room of the church. The \ meals yesterday were furnished by the ladies of the Trinity and East Pearl street church es. To day they will be provided by the | ladies of the St. John street and the First I church.
 EVENING SESSION.
 About six hundred people were present at | the evening session, which opened with an | organ prelude by Professor Ensign, after \ which Rev. s. l.. Baldwin of East Boston, \ Mass, offered prayer. Hymn 930 was then sung, after which the Rev. G. H. McGrew of \ Meriden was introduced, and during his ad- ! address on India said will to night speak \ about the womens work among the women ! heathen of India. You know that India has a population of over 255, ,000, ,000 people, \ 190, ,000, 900 of which are Hindoos, and over half these women, say 125, ,0O0, GOO, to whom | the truths of Christianity are yet to be \ brought. The Hindoo women of the upper | classes are kept very s cluded in their homes ! and the women missionaries have very hard work to reach them, while for the male mis- sionaries it is an impossibility. Even if g male missionary were to speak to common coolie woman on the streets she would turn ! from him, and pulling down her veil make
 her escape as quickly as possible, and so you \ see the great necessity of sending women missionaries. Now it was always possible | for the male missionaries to talk to the men but not so to the women; so when husband
 accepted Christianity and the wife did not
 in nearly every case it caused a separation and the children remain with the mother, as the law of that country decrees- Now you can gee how very important it is that the women should
 be reached, so that when the husband ae cepts Christianity the woman may do like wise. Now the way our female missionaries
 reach these people is by obtaining access in to their homes and teaching them to sew cook and to do other useful things until they